These include Claudius betraying the king, Hamlet leaving Ophelia, and Claudius attempting to kill Hamlet. ... From me, whose love was of that dignity that it went hand in hand even with the vow I made to her in marriage, and to decline upon a wretch whose natural gifts were poor to those of mine! ... By denying his love for Ophelia, he leaves her confused and broken hearted. She didn't understand why the man she loved was now acting as though he was disgusted by her and as if he never cared for her at all. ... Hamlet truly loves Ophelia, but she will never know because of his deceptive p...

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Claudius deceives Gertrude and uses her as a mean to gain power. ... Without knowing that it is Claudius responsible for the death of the king, Gertrude trusts Claudius for being the right heir to the thrown and marries him. Claudius also tricks everybody by showing that he is a loving, caring and responsible stepfather to Hamlet in order to gain the trust and love of Gertrude. For instance, Claudius shows his fictitious love for Hamlet in front of the Queen when he states, "This mad young man. But so much was our love"(4.1.19). ...

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Laertes was poised by the ideas of Claudius and midway during the fight he says to himself, "And yet it is almost against my conscience" (V:ii, 273). This realization shows how the obsessions of Claudius took over Laertes, and his own revenge quest prevented him from seeing Claudius" deceit. ... Gertrude is poisoned by Claudius greedy obsession for power. ... In addition, it is Hamlets obsession with taking revenge on Claudius that leads to his downfall. ... Her ideals of true love are shattered when Hamlet yells, "Get thee to a nunnery, farewell" (III:i, 134). ...

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In contrast to the ghost's opinion of the crime, King Claudius feels mixed remourse and self serving ambition. In lines 36-39, Claudius compares his crime to the crime of Cain in the Bible. ... These lines clearly show that while Claudius did plot his brother's demise, he did not slay without remourse. ... He also expresses his love for the queen, his dignity, and confusion in lines 46-49, "The will of my most seeming-virtuous queen...From me, whose love was of that dignity..." ... In true political manner, Claudius' words flow smoothly but the his meaning runs converse to his w...

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Hamlet is a play of love and love lost. ... Gertrude betrays that love by marrying her brother-in-law, Claudius, and Ophelia betrays his love by refusing him on her father's advice. ... Gertrude too, experiences love lost when she loses her husband, so she turns to Claudius to replace it (just like Hamlet turned to her and Ophelia to replace his). Similarly, her second love betrays her, but by the time she discovers this, she is already dying (after Claudius accidentally poisoned her). ... You could almost call Claudius his second love, since the King wooed Laertes into joining hi...

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At this point Hamlet is certain that Claudius is responsible for his father's murder. ... After Hamlet realizes that Claudius is guilty, he comes across him in the chapel. He is given the perfect opportunity to finally kill Claudius, but turns it down because he does not want to kill Claudius while he is praying. ... Hamlet treated his mother in a rude fashion, because he loved and trusted her, but she married Claudius less than a few months after his father's death. ... However, Ophelia's love for Hamlet caused her to mistake Hamlet's original intention for his distrust an...

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He urges Hamlet that he must take revenge for his murder and kill Claudius, and says, "If thou didst ever thy father love/...Revenge his foul and most unnatural murder" (I.v: 29, 31). ... When the play (appropriately titled "The Mouse Trap" because of its design to catch Claudius) is performed, Claudius storms out, crying, "Give me some light: away!"... Hamlets first opportunity to kill Claudius is when Claudius is confessing to god. ... He wants Claudius to have to go through purgatory, so although this is the perfect opportunity to kill Claudius, he can't. ... Hamlet stops himself from...

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Claudius' motives to kill the old King Hamlet was to become King himself, to be more important and powerful than he was before and also to marry Gertrude whom he loved. ... Hamlet refers to King Claudius as a "bloody, bawdy villain" (2.2.580). ... That way, Claudius will go to hell, as opposed to heaven. ... Therefore he must wait for Claudius to sin in order to fulfill is destiny. ... Hamlet learned that he needed to kill King Claudius in order to get revenge on him for killing his father, however it had to be under the circumstance that Claudius' soul would be sent to he...

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In the Play Hamlet, Claudius has a downfall throughout the play. ... By the beginning of Act III, Hamlet is almost ready to kill Claudius, but he still needs more proof that Claudius killed his father. ... After this Hamlet spies on Claudius. ... The development of Claudius' guilt is a gradual transformation. ... She tells him "If you do not do this for me u are not man enough and I will no longer love you". ...

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For most people, it's the last thing that crosses their minds when they cheat on a test or lie to the people they love. ... Like Claudius, Cain murders his brother out of envy. ... When Claudius confesses having killed his brother, Hamlet had all the proof he needed to confirm what the ghost had told him. ... He realized that he had to kill Claudius when he was committing a sin so that he would go to hell and be punished for his sins. This is an important detail that Shakespeare included in order for Hamlet to not kill Claudius right away. ...

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DOES HAMLET LOVE OPHELIA? I believe that Hamlet had a true affection for Ophelia that may have been love or would have grown into true love had it not been for the chain of events that occurred. ... Hamlet was extremely distraught over the marriage of Gertrude to Claudius. ... Hamlet also knows that Claudius killed his father and feels that his mother has defiled the memory of his father by marrying his father's murderer. ... Upon hearing of Ophelia's death Hamlet does finally admit that he did love Ophelia and regrets that he could not freely admit or express his love for he...

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Yet you are told that perusing what you love will take you nowhere. ... Do you decide to follow what you love? ... By Act 3 scene 1 Hamlet has endured many grim events; the murderous death of his father, his mother remarrying his loathed uncle with only a short period of mourning for her husband's death, the denial of love from whom he desired, Ophelia, and is presented with the task to take revenge for his father's murder from whom he suspects is his father's ghost. ... He is very cautious and procrastinates the task of killing Claudius. If he commits the murder without being c...

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Laertes highly respects and loves his father Polonius. ... Hamlet directs his mother to convince Claudius of Hamlet's madness. ... Furthermore, Hamlet instructs his mother not to sleep with Claudius. ... Claudius employed Rosencrantz and Guildenstern to gather information on Hamlet. ... Hamlet and Laertes both have a strong love for Ophelia. ...

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Intrigued-and a little scared, (though he would never mention that)-Horatio convinces the two guards he accompanied on their watch to bring the matter straight to Hamlet rather than Claudius. ... Loyalty is synonymous to love. So, Hamlet's, or even Laertes' love toward Ophelia could be used as a proper example. ... Loyalty to his dead father and sister drove Laertes to a need for retribution, vengeance for his dead loved ones, and he got it, though not in the way he had expected. ... "No one has greater love than this: to lay down one's life for a friend....

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Hamlet is angry with Gertrude because of her love for Claudius. ... Hamlet scolds his mother, "nay but to live in the rank sweat of an enseamed bed, stewed in corruption, honeying and making love over the nasty sty." ... Hamlet should have confronted Claudius from the beginning. Hamlet should have told Claudius what he knew and made Claudius confess it to him. ... Hamlet should have only been fighting with Claudius. ...

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Hamlet has no respect for Ophelia he says to her "I did love you once". "I loved you not" (3.1.1628). ... Ophelia told her father, Polonius that Hamlet's madness was due to his love for her. ... Gertrude told Claudius "This mad young man. But so much was our love. ...

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He says goodbye to his sister Opehlia and warns her about falling in love with Hamlet because he thinks that Hamlet is too old for him to truly love her. ... Polonius suspects that Hamlet may be madly in love with Ophelia and that may be the cause of Hamlet's moodiness. ... (After midnight) Summary: Polonius declares, that the prince is mad with love for Ophelia. He shows the king and queen letters and love poems Hamlet has given to Ophelia, and proposes a plan to test his theory. ... Hamlet decides to kill Claudius only when he is sinning. ...

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"I loved Ophelia: forty thousand brothers Could not with all their quantity of love Make up my sum." ... This includes Ophelia, the women he loves whom he bitterly rejects when he learns she has betrayed him. ... Claudius: The present King of Denmark, King Claudius took Queen Gertrude whom he loves as his queen and wife, much to the consternation of Hamlet who believes his mother has betrayed him and his father's memory by doing so. Cautious and suspicious, Claudius has courtiers Rosencrantz and Guildenstern and Hamlet's love interest Ophelia spying on Hamlet for him since as he...

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This delay ultimately leads to his own death, and the deaths of many loved ones Hamlet was a very intellectual man who recently came back from university in Wittenberg, to morn the passing of his great father King Hamlet. ... He wanted Claudius to suffer just like his father is suffering in his after life he doesn't want Claudius to get away with what he has done. ... Hamlet knew he could not kill Claudius because of his beliefs, he knew that if God wanted Claudius dead, it would happen. ... (3,2,293-294) Hamlet only tragic flaw through the play was that he procrastinated in...

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Hamlet is informed by his father that he need to be avenged by death of Claudius. ... When hamlet catches up to Claudius, he finds Claudius kneeling in prayer, and Hamlet pulls out his sword and gets ready to kill him. ... So Hamlet postpones the killing of Claudius. ... Stricken with grief, he attacks Laertes and declares that he had in fact always loved Ophelia. ... Claudius dies, and Hamlet die immediately after achieving his revenge. ...

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He verbally abuses her by telling her that she is misguided for the reason that he was never in love with her and that she is a hoer. ... King Claudius has his intellect all crammed with dire ideas. ... King Claudius knows that Queen Gertrude loves her son exceptionally and that he would by no means be able to put Hamlet in prison for his actions. Instead King Claudius decides to send Hamlet to England. ... As it shows King Claudius has no motive for the way he is acting. ...

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I like many see that it is evident that Hamlet's true motivation for plotting against Claudius is that Claudius has robbed Hamlet of Gertrude; Hamlet could have pursued his mother, after his father died but marrying his mother would be morally wrong. The confrontation between Hamlet and Queen Gertrude in the castle over her relationship with Claudius portrays Hamlet's anger towards his mother. Hamlet harshly criticizes his mother for her hasty marriage to her former brother-in-law Claudius so soon after King Hamlet's death. ... Through Gertrude's conviction he wants to ...

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Hamlet and his Uncle Claudius don't get along too well because of all the commotion that Claudius has caused. ... Hamlet led her to believe that he had the most undying love for her and would always love her. In his rage to catch the new King Claudius in act of sin he mistakes Ophelia's father for Claudius and ends up stabbing and killing Ophelia's father. ... After Ophelia's death, Claudius makes a plan with Ophelia's brother to kill Hamlet. ... That didn't seem to be working so well; therefor Claudius dumps the poison into a drink and tries to set up Hamlet t...

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Polonius was a friend of Claudius, and when Claudius bacame the king, Polonius a member of his council and his informant. ... Hamlet was the nephew of Claudius. ... Ophelia was a young girl who was in love with Prince Hamlet. ... Polonius believed theat Hamlet's insanity was due to Ophelia's refusal of his love. ... Gertrude loved her son, Hamlet, more than anyone else in the world. ...

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She does this by falling in love with Claudius and collaborating with him to kill King Hamlet, Prince Hamlet's father. She did Claudius a favor by marrying him because he wanted to become King and rule Denmark. ... She realizes that Hamlet knows what is going on and that he will try to kill Claudius. ... As Gertrude dies, Laertes, himself dying, discloses his and Claudius's plot against Hamlet. Hamlet then kills Claudius while dying. ...

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